Much like the annoucement to celebrate MineCove's Inception Month, August marks 5 years since we first entered Beta Phase!
Beta-phase traditionally refers to the time period in which much testing is performed to adequately assess whether things are up to snuff. This period was incredibly important for MineCove as it greatly shaped what MineCove is today more than any other time period!

So what do we have planned for this month?

Rather than events as we saw in July, this month we have a simple 5 step program for you to follow as we come within 30 days of September!

Log on to survival at least once during this month before August 30th. Just one time. You won't be able to after September.

With the MineCove Road project now completed, MineCove is now offering cars for all players to purchase. These are completely functional vehicles that you can sit in, drive around, and even take a friend in the back seat!

Cars can be purchased using the in-game interface, /buycar. Currently the following colors are listed:

Brown CarGray CarBlue CarOrange CarGreen CarYellow CarRed Car

Additionally, each of these cars have their own stats. You can check these out in game with the /buycar menu.

As with real world vehicles, MineCove cars run on fuel. You'll need to purchase an time-based allowance of fuel with /buyfuel.

A lesser known bit of MineCove history -
MineCove was first devised, named, and worked on July 2012
Our Beta-Phase occured during the month of August 2012
As most of you are aware, MineCove officially opened September 1st 2012

That means MineCove is closing in on being 5 years old. Half a decade!

To celebrate this incredible milestone, we'll be running some awesome promotions over the next three months.

To start, the following are in effect:

Vote crates have been revamped! New prizes include Grand Blocks, 6 Hour Potions, and brand new Gear sets. Drop rates are also increased for this month!

You can now redeem FIVE collectors items for tons of Lunas! Check /changelog in-game to see which of these there are. Additionally, all Player Boxes will now drop 1 collectors item - None will be empty!

There are now Shiny Pokemon cards! Shiny cards are extremely rare, but for the month of July all Shiny Pokemon cards now have a 2x flip rate!

The afk kicker is disabled for ALL players!

Lots more on the way!

So stay tuned and be sure to check in frequently as we get closer to our official 5 year birthday - September 1st!

We're now fully updated to 1.12. With this comes parrots, concrete blocks, terracotta, and a score of other features.

The only major resource that appears to be needing an update is /modreq. For now, please use the @Moderator or @Admin tags on our Discord if you need any staff help. You can join our Discord here if you have not already: https://discord.gg/RqpSbaR

We've been allowing everyone to test drive the vehicles at /spawn. We're just about ready for them to be purchasable, however, first we need roads built for these cars to drive on!

In order for cars to be available for players, roads throughout MineCove must be constructed. In addition, these roads must meet rigid criteria for safe driving.

To start, all roads must meet the following specifications:

The road must be 13 blocks wide

The black road/asphalt must be made out of Coal Block

The yellow center marker must be made out of Yellow Stained Clay

The border surrounding the road, which is 1 block higher than the rest of the road, must be made out of Cyan Stained Clay

Illustration below -

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Example of an in game road can be found at /warp roadexample

Additionally:

With exception to the road within 100 blocks of /Spawn, all roads must sit on or below ground level
All roads must have at least 5 blocks of air above them
Turns must be gradual, not abrupt corners (Check /warp roadturnexample)
Slopes must be built using stone slabs as the stairs (Check /warp roadstairexample)
Roads cannot have any impurities - The entire length must meet the above specifications and item requirements
Use of tunnels is advised to avoid having to dig out an entire mountain
You're welcome to branch off the road or redirect the road to go through your town, just so long as it meets the other ends of the road noted below

Where to find resources:

Coal blocks can be found via conventional methods or you can use /roadexchange where you can trade in ores and common blocks for coal blocks directly

Stained clay is commonly found in Mesa biomes, however prestiged players will have additional access to an abundant amount of stained clay in the Prestige World

Over the month of March we saw something that has never occurred before - There were practically no rewards for voting.

Money from voting had been removed, hourly online payments were gone, /fly was freely available for the full month. You had your afk kicker certainly, but really, what good was it when crates and hourly payments had been removed for March Madness?

Indeed, we saw a drop in votes because of this, however there were still some exemplary members in the community who voted anyway. Not out of reward, but out of support for MineCove. The purpose of this post is to recognize each of these individuals and give them all some special, albeit delayed, rewards.

To be deemed a dedicated voter, one had to obtain 31 total votes, or an average of one vote per day for March

Since our staff must obtain 100 votes monthly, they will have 100 deducted from their scores and the excess counted

Votes will be per single account only. Alts simply cannot be factored in due to the complexities of shared IP addresses

This count was taken at about 11pm EST, March 31st

We'll start with our top voter and work our way downwards, ties sorted alphabetically: